My favourite App for editing my photos at the moment is Aviary, the app has a number of filters and effects along with the function of changing a number of aspects of an image. Using the app you can crop,blur,focus,whiten,add text along with many other features.
i start off my opening the app, for this example i have used an image of this beautiful building in London, this image is particularly dark and the features of the building cannot be seen so using the app we are gonna fix this. Once i open up the image i go on 'ADJUST' here you will see you will be able to change brightness, exposure ect..
I begin with Adjusting the Brightness which i find can transform a picture completely, i play around with the intensity until i feel like it looks just right, for this picture i choose +100 as the original image was quite dark.
I then turned the contrast up to +63 to add more depth and distinguish the key features of the picture.
I added some saturation to increase the colour of the light and windows, be sure to only add small amounts as it can affect the quality of the image.
Next using the HIGHLIGHT tool i increased it up to 83, highlights emphasized the whiteness and therefore making the sky crisp and clean.
Finally i lowered the SHADOWS down to -60, this makes the black in the image even darker.
Before / After
Image Recap
Brightness +100
Contrast +63
Saturation +49
Highlights +83
Shadows -63
